1880
1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
EventsJanuary - April January 1 - Construction of the Panama Canal begins February 1 - First edition of The Stage published February 2 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana February 13 - Thomas Edison becomes the second person to observe the Edison Effect. February 17 - Bomb explodes in Winter Palace dining room but the tzar Alexander II survives because he was late for dinner March 10 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations. April 22 ? Benjamin Disraeli resigns.
May - August May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. June 29 - France annexes Tahiti July 1 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada. July 16 - First woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe.
September - December October - terrible winter storm in North America, the "Blizzard of 1880". October 15 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists. November - James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock in the U.S. presidential election November 11 - Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hung in Melbourne. November 22 - Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City. December 30 - The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger becomes its first president.
Unknown dateDiscovery of piezoelectricity by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.Completion of Cologne cathedral.Founding of Science by Thomas Edison. Cocaine isolated The British recognise Abdur Rahman Khan as amir of Afghanistan
Births January 6 - Tom Mix, actor (d. 1940) January 17 - Mack Sennett, director, producer (d. 1960) January 26 - Douglas MacArthur, general (d. 1964) January 28 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970). January 29 - W.C. Fields, English actor (d. 1946) February 5 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973) February 8 - Franz Marc, artist, co-founder: Blauer Reiter (d. 1916) February 12 - John L. Lewis, labor union leader (d. 1969) February 21 - Waldemar Bonsels, writer (d. 1952) February 22 - Frigyes Riesz, mathematician (d. 1956) March 1 - Giles Lytton Strachey British writer and biographer (d. 1932) March 10 - Bronco Billy Anderson, actor (d. 1971) March 13 - Frank Thieß, writer (d. 1977) March 30 - Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (d. 1964) April 13 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner (d. 1955) April 18 - Sam Crawford, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1968) May 6 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, painter (d. 1938) May 14 - B.C. Forbes, financial publisher (d. 1954) May 25 - Jean Alexandre Barré, neurologist (d. 1967) May 29 - Oswald Spengler, philosopher (d. 1936) June 27 - Helen Keller, spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968) July 5 - Jan Kubelík, violinist (d. 1940) July 24 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (d. 1959) August 6 - Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964) August 8 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961) August 10 - Robert L. Thornton, Dallas, Texas businessman, philanthropist and mayor (d. 1964) August 22 - George Herriman, cartoonist (d. 1944) August 26 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (d. 1918) August 31 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962) September 14 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955) September 22 - Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette (d. 1958) November 6 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942) December 11 - - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951). December 31 - George C. Marshall, American general (d.1959)Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, American equestrian (d. 1925)Joseph Trumpeldor, Zionist (d. 1920)Abd al-Aziz IV, sultan of MoroccoGar Wood, motorboat racer
Deaths January 8 - Joshua A. Norton, self-anointed Emperor Norton I of the United States of America (b. 1811) March 31 - Henryk Wieniawski, composer (b. 1835) May 4 - Edward Clark, governor of Texas (b. 1815) May 8 - Gustave Flaubert, novelist (b. 1821) July 7 - Lydia Child, novelist and abolitionist (b. 1802) August 17 - Ole Bull, Norwegian Violinist (b. 1810) November 11 - Bushranger Ned Kelly hanged October 4 - Jacques Offenbach, composer (b. 1819)
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